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- Title
Eratosthenes, Icaria and the Origins of Tragedy.
- Authors
Broggiato, Maria
- Abstract
This paper discusses the text of one of the fragments of Eratosthenes’ Erigone (fr. 22 Powell). Modern scholars have linked this one-line fragment with a Hellenistic theory that placed the origin of drama in the village of Icaria, in the Attic countryside. It is likely that the fragment did mention the word ‘billy-goat’ (τράγος), but there are no definite elements in favour of the hypothesis that Eratosthenes devised a theory on the origin of tragedy in Icaria.
- Subjects
ERIGONE (Poem); LITERARY criticism; GREEK poetry; GREEK tragedy; GREEK drama; POETRY appreciation; DRAMA criticism
- Publication
Mnemosyne, 2014, Vol 67, Issue 6, p885
- ISSN
0026-7074
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/1568525X-12341419